Implementations Forth Languages

The goal of this category is to be the most comprehensive list of Forth implementations and links on the Internet. Forth is a programming language with a lot of implementations; you might say it is implementation rich; it may have more implementations than any other language. This is a strength and a weakness; it has positive and negative aspects, depending on your application. Many other languages are standardized, or complex and large, and when users want a new feature or change, they write an extension. Forth is less standardized and very compact, and when users want a new feature or change, they write an implementation. Forth philosophy is: If you can't find what you want in an extant Forth, write your own. Flexibility is the key virtue and goal.

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• Simtel.net: DOS: Forth - About 20 downloads, 9 different Forth implementations for DOS.
  
• Timbre - Script driven translator engine: uses rules and rule sets to set how to transform input into output; used for language translating, target and meta-compiling, code verification, binary viewing, code documentation, RTF parsers and reformatters.
  
• Power MacForth - Highly optimized programming environment for any Power PC running Macintosh OS: high-speed execution, flexible internal multitasking, RISC assembler gives direct access to native CPU architecture for top speed.
  
• ForthCAD - By Bureau d'Etudes (engineering and design department) Melice SPRL. ForthCAD-3D (French), 2D/3D Computer Aided Design software. ForthCAD-Pager (English), simple, accurate, reliable, low cost 2D editor, comes with new modular 3D CAD product line, evaluatio
  
• SwiftX - By FORTH, Inc. Integrated cross-development environment for embedded systems. Runs on Windows, supports many target CPUs, custom versions available often in days.
  
• Pocket Forth - By örg Langowski, MacTutor Editorial Board. Article and example sources.
  
• bigFORTH+MINOS - Native code, 32-bit Forth for Linux or Windows 95/98/NT/2000, with MINOS graphic user interface, and Theseus rapid GUI development editor. GPL, on SourceForge.
  
• Embedded Forth Compilers - Forth systems for AVR, PIC and MSP430.
  
• ForthOS - TUNES project Wiki page; many links, little description, on Forth OSs.
  
• ciforth - Forth implementation for Intel microprocessors.
  
• JaxForth; VWin4th - Three Jack J. Woehr implementations. JaxForth/Jax4th: ANSI Standard Forth for Amiga, Windows. VWin4th: 1994 tiny demo Forth written in Digitalk Smalltalk for Windows, source only. Also, author's book and many good links.
  
• aha - An expression used to convey an epiphany felt on the sudden manifestation of the essence of meaning of something. Heuristic architecture; holistic approach using hardware and software methods developed by Moore: descriptions of compiler, system, optimizin
  
• PicForth - Forth compiler for the Microchip PIC 16f87x microcontrollers family.
  
• SP-Forth - ANS compliant Win32 multithreaded Forth system. Released under GPL on SourceForge.
  
• Misty Beach Forth - Written in Java, so its interpreter can be embedded in a WWW HTML page and launched as an applet, to show that almost any programming language can be implemented in Java and not suffer unacceptable performance losses; documentation, downloads as a Forth J
  
• F68KANS - By HARDCODE Development; portable Forth development system for Motorola 680x0, supports ANSI; includes source, documentation, tools; free download.
  
• MPE Forth - By MicroProcessor Engineering, Ltd. Runs on Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000, targets embedded systems; VFX optimizing code generator on selected targets; flexible target memory management; standalone PowerForth target with its own compiler, interpreter.
  
• pbForth - Programmable Brick Forth, by Hempel Design Group; replacement firmware for Lego Mindstorms: FAQ, mail list, GUI interface, and tutorial in pdf format.
  
• SwiftForth - By FORTH, Inc. Very fast ANS compliant Forth development environment fully integrated with Windows 95/98/NT. Capable of as much real-time performance as Windows can support. 32-bit subroutine-threaded with direct code expansion for speed.
  
• Forth Script - Server-side web scripting engine based on Forth.
  
• ficl/eCos: ZOG - C version of ficl (Forth Inspired Command Language), runs on eCos OS; eCos and Forth can be small, ZOG is under 150K with author setup: i386, floppy booting. Includes source, floppy image downloads.
  
• ProForth VFX - Very fast ANS standard Windows Forth. By MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd.
  
• HMSL: Hierarchical Music Specification Language - Object oriented set of extensions to Forth, for experimental music composition and performance. For any Macintosh, and 1 Meg RAM.
  
• guiforth - Customized version of pForth that provides bindings to the FLTK library.
  
• ForthCMP - Tom Almy's Forth compiler for x86 targets. Not interpreted: compiles to machine code (built-in assembler), written in Forth; very compact, fast, mature, stable.
  
• 4tH compiler-interpreter - The friendly Forth compiler/interpreter: detects virtually every error and reports what and where they occur, but is still fast and compact. Uses only signed 32 bit numbers. DOS, Windows, Unix.
  
• Pygmy Forth; 3-instruction Forth - Two Frank Sergeant implementations. Pygmy Forth: small, for IBM PCs, full source code. 3-instruction Forth for 68HC11, FORML 1991 with updates.
  
• eForth: Linux, FreeBSD - Unofficial eForth for Linux 2.0.x and FreeBSD 2.0.5, using Wil Baden's pinhole optimizer.
  
• Abundance package; BBL Forth - Downloads: 3 programs, 1 library.
  
• Portable Forth Environment: PFE - Based on ANSI Forth Standard, fully multithreaded, has module system, can load C objects at runtime to extend dictionary, best for embedded uses. Descriptions, history, links. [Open Source, LGPL]
  
• FIJI ForthIsh Java Interpreter - Written in Java, full GPL source. Runs in command line or AWT window. Accepts syntax like Forth language and uses reference stack to push and pop all parameters to its functions. Can create Java objects and call methods on them from FIJI stack.
  
• HYPE - Very simple object oriented Forth implementation, by Helge Horch.
  
• lpForth - Runs on Linux OS, similar to eForth. Goals: simple, easy to understand first, speed and elegance later; able to call functions (procedures) in dynamic linked library (.so files). Download, development forum.
  
• Quartus Forth - Was PilotFORTH; for 3Com PalmPilot and IBM WorkPad handheld PDAs: 16-bit on-board native-code ISO/ANSI compliant Standard Forth subset compiler, compiles directly to machine language, giving far faster code than traditional threaded implementations. Full
  
• dsForth - By DELOSOFT.COM. Supports: all Win32 (CE/9x/ME/NT/2000, CE emulators), Intel/MIPS/SH3/StrongARM CPUs. ANS'94 compliant, current language standard. Multithreaded core. Compatible with SP-Forth/3.x and libraries. Self-hosted development: compiler and consol
  
• MMSFORTH - By Miller Microcomputer Services. Forth virtual machine; standalone total software environment; traditional Forth features: compactness, flexibility, speed; many extensions with source code; unusual smoothness, support. And Forth software, books, links.
  
• Enth - The n'th Forth: experimental Forth written as stand alone system for 80386 PCs and above, tested on some Pentium and Athlon desktops, laptops; from Sean Pringle 'The State of Flux' website. Basis for Flux variant of colorForth.
  
• Abundance - Forth-based, data-entry, data-base, screen-handling language. Automatically handles routine housekeeping that usually accounts for 90% of interactive application code. All Abundance programs can jaunt (run backward in time).
  
• JForth: SoftSynth.com - By Delta Research, subroutine threaded Forth for Amiga, originally a commercial product now released as freeware: register and download, technical support, applications, review by Jack Woehr, links.
  
• Mops - A public-domain programming system for Mac OS X. It is a native code dialect of ANS Forth with significant enhancements to the OOP model employed in Neon/Yerk.
  
• Delta Forth .NET compiler - Forth compiler for the .NET platform. [Open source].
  
• iForth FAQ - Very fast, multi-platform, full 32-bit Forth: 4 GByte flat address space, subroutine threading, runs on any Intel compatible CPU '386+'387 or more, and on DOS, Linux, Windows NT.
  
• Holon Lite - Free, full function demonstration version of Holon-86, which builds target programs on DOS platforms. You can use it for real programming.
  
• tForth FAQ - Forth with parallel facilities for the INMOS range of Transputers. An overview, or FAQ of sorts.
  
• mxForth - Very efficient Forth compiler, source code loosely based on Bill Muench's bForth. For Linux, Windows NT. Generated with the META program, a free metacompiler written in Forth. Free with iForth.
  
• pForth - Portable, public domain, ANS Forth based on kernel written in ANSI C for portability: for x86 PC, Mac, Amiga; Linux, BeOS; Sun, SGI Indys; Nokia Communicator; 3DO ARM and PowerPC, WebTV, Hitachi SH4, OpenTV prototypes, internal Lucent projects.
  
• ColdForth Kernel - For Motorola ColdFire chips. [Open source, Artistic/GPL]
  
• Holon - By Wolf Wejgaard Forth Engineering. New, Forth-based instant programming tool and interactive programming method that lets you build reliable programs in very little time; merges all parts of a powerful development tool: browser, editor, assembler, compil
  
• Yerk FTP site - Free downloads of Neon/Yerk Object Oriented Forth.
  
• 4IM - Standalone Forth (neither ANS compliant nor ColorForth) for PC.
  
• ficl - Forth Inspired Command Language, ANS Forth interpreter in C. Use: scripting language to embed in other systems as object-oriented command/macro/development prototype language. Descriptions, many documents, downloads. [SourceForge]
  
• Pet4th - Petrus Prawirodidjojo's Forth based on eforth for DOS and Windows.
  
• kForth - Programming language and environment; implements large subset of ANS Forth, and extensions; can be standalone computing environment or object code can be linked to other programs to be a customizable language for that program.
  
• QED Forth - By Mosaic Industries, Inc.: interactive interpreter, compiler, assembler, debugger speeds programming, testing. Resources callable from Forth/C: automatic system initialization, multitasking executive, heap memory manager, libraries of device drivers and
  
• Dragon Forth - ANS Forth 94 translator for PalmOS.
  
  

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